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July 5, 2018
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Reimagining the Humanities for a Changing Future
"There is no such thing as a starving humanist. These people are employed in all kinds of jobs in all kinds of fields," Alain-Philippe Durand says of a renewed focus on the humanities at the University of Arizona.Read More
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Sept. 14, 2017
The University of Arizona's new Center for Buddhist Studies will create a research hub to explore the religious, intellectual, social, cultural and textual traditions of the world’s fourth-largest faith.
With Buddhist traditions becoming more…
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Sept. 12, 2017
The latest issue of Critical Multilingualism Studies, co-edited by two UA German Studies professors, is released this month.
Issue 5.2 of the interdisciplinary journal explores the topic of “Legitimate Speakers in Contested Spaces.”
The journal is…
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Sept. 11, 2017
A new Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant will allow UA faculty members to bring Arizona teachers to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan for a curriculum development trip next summer.
University of Arizona faculty members in the Department of Russian…
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Sept. 8, 2017
Denis M. Provencher, head of the department of French & Italian, has received an award from the Association for Queer Anthropology for his newly published book.
Provencher’s Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations (…
Aug. 1, 2017
The UA’s National Center for Interpretation summer training institute has 38 new graduates.
The Agnese Haury Court Interpreter Training Institute (CITI) has been the country’s premier Spanish/English court interpreter training in the country for…
July 31, 2017
The UA’s National Center for Interpretation (NCI) will receive a $25,000 sponsorship from the Judicial Council of California to develop a job task analysis survey for sign language interpretation in the legal setting.
The funding comes after a…
July 26, 2017
Wenhao Diao, an Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays grant to support a project bringing Tucson educators to China.
Diao's proposal for the 2017 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program…
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July 25, 2017
The University of Arizona is launching a new degree in world literature, introducing students to various traditions of storytelling, narrative and expression across the world.
Combined with an intensive foreign language study, the degree program…
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July 20, 2017
The Poetry Coalition, of which the University of Arizona Poetry Center is a founding member, will benefit from a $200,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.
The Academy of American Poets will administer the two-year grant, which will enable the new…
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July 12, 2017
A University of Arizona professor on a Fulbright research and teaching fellowship to India was selected by the Fulbright Foundation to help facilitate orientation sessions for scholars interested in opportunities to conduct their research abroad.…
July 11, 2017
Tani Sanchez, associate professor of Africana Studies, is dedicated to genealogy work that tells the story of her family and the history of Tucson's black community.
Sanchez and her sister Derri are the subject of this wonderful story from the…
July 10, 2017
The University of Arizona Poetry Center announces its schedule of readings, lectures and presentations for the upcoming fall, with more than a dozen events spanning from August to December.
Highlights of the Fall 2017 Reading & Lecture Series…